George Washington Carver: A Very Intelligent Man

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George Washington Carver was a very intelligent boy and as he grew he became to be a very intelligent man. George was born in Missouri. His mother and father were slaves, his father died before he was born. His mother and him were kidnapped. Only George returned to the plantation. When George was a baby he had a disease that was called whooping cough. A whooping cough is a really bad cough which left George very, very sickly and weak. George couldn’t do what all the other slaves could do. George’s jobs were things like sewing, cooking, and although he couldn’t do what all the other slaves could do he loved to work in the garden. George taught his self how to read. his family was so poor he couldn’t afford a whole pencil, so George used…show more content…
He had found an old stove in the city dump and bought it home and prepared meals for his friends. He used old wrapping paper for note books. He always used the phrase “ don’t throw away anything” “everything can be used again” … after he had graduated they asked him to teach beginner Biology later he was asked to teach at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama…. Carver started studying diseases. The diseases he was studying were diseases that was destroying farmers crops. Now here is my favorite part George Washington Carver created more than 300 products from peanuts. He also made 118 products from sweet potatoes, and 75 products from pecans. He even made a building material for walls out of cotton stalk. Later on in his life something incredible happened, Thomas Edison offered him $100,000 to go and work for him. He turned it down, the reason why he turned it down is because he thought he was doing just fine where he was at. He made his students work really hard, he wanted them to get it all right. He would use this other phrase if they would tell him “its about right”, he would say “about right don’t tell me ‘its about right’. if its ‘about right’ than its wrong”. As you can see money, fine cars, and clothes were not important to George Washington

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